{"id":547078,"date":"2026-07-18T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547078\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:50:09","slug":"several-wounded-in-kuwait-by-iranian-drones-ballistic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547078\/","title":{"rendered":"Several wounded in Kuwait by Iranian drones, ballistic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran claimed to have struck and damaged US military<\/a> sites in Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain with drones, according to Iranian state media outlet Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in the early morning hours on Saturday.<\/p>\n

According to IRIB, drones targeted US ammunition stores and communication assets at Kuwait<\/a>\u2019s Ali Al Salem Air Base. They also claimed to have targeted US military assets at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.<\/p>\n

IRIB additionally claimed that they targeted US aircraft hangars, fuel tanks, and communication assets in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Later on Saturday, Jordanian media reported the interception of ten Iranian ballistic missiles by Jordan’s military. No casualties or material damage were reported.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, Iran fired several ballistic missiles and drones towards Kuwait, Kuwait’s military stated in an X\/Twitter post citing Kuwaiti Defense Ministry Spokesperson Maj.-Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi.<\/p>\n

Several Kuwaiti soldiers were wounded by falling shrapnel from intercepted aerial targets, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

Multiple sites were hit by the Iranian attack, including a power station, water desalination plant, and other civilian infrastructure, with reports of fires and material damage.<\/p>\n

Kuwait’s military noted that no civilians were wounded in Iran’s attack, which caused additional damage across the country through falling shrapnel from intercepted missiles and drones.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for previous strikes on Kuwait, claiming it had targeted US military facilities, according to a report by Iran’s semi-official Mehr News.<\/p>\n

The IRGC also claimed that it had struck and damaged a US military drone depot in Bahrain in response to US strikes<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n

On Friday, advisor to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Mohsen Rezaei threatened that Tehran will \u201cmove into a phase of full-scale offensive operations\u201d if the US continues strikes<\/a> against Iran for \u201cseveral more days,\u201d during an interview with Iran\u2019s State TV.<\/p>\n

He also warned that if the US attempts to seize any locations, Iran may engage in an \u201coffensive war instead of a defensive one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ariella Roitman and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran claimed to have struck and damaged US military sites in Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain with drones, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18292,17467,16606,42,87,2286,6606,43,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-547078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bahrain","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-drone","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-jordan","tag-kuwait","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}